The Mirgorod Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest museums in the Poltava region, founded in 1920 on the initiative of the artist and ethnographer A.G. Slasten (Slastion), as a local history. The museum's collection was created on the basis of Slasten's personal collection and objects of museum value from the landowners' estates. During the German occupation, a significant part of the museum's collection was destroyed, the museum building burned down. The museum reopened in 1947, in 1996 it moved to a specially built building located on the site of the not preserved Mirgorod fortress. In memory of this, in 2007, the Square of Cossack Glory was opened in front of the museum building, a monument to the Cossacks and a Cossack cannon were erected.

There are 15,000 exhibits in the museum's funds, united in three permanent sections. Here you can see the materials of archaeological excavations, things of the Cossack era, household items from different times, antique furniture, books of the 18th-19th centuries; a collection of folk embroidery, a collection of kobz and bandura and much more.